Portuguese commercial fisheries of swordfish, Xiphias gladius

Swordfish has an important role in Portuguese fisheries. Portuguese commercial swordfish landings were analyzed from 1986 to 2012. Commercial landings of five incidental catches of pelagic sharks (Alopias superciliosus, Alopias vulpinus, Isurus oxyrinchus, Prionace glauca and Sphryna zygaena) were a...

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Main Author: André Roxo Nunes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fmars.2014.02.00133/full